Green-crowned brilliant

Green-crowned brilliant
Male
Female
Both in Mount Totumas cloud forest, Panama
CITES Appendix II (CITES)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Order: Apodiformes
Family: Trochilidae
Genus: Heliodoxa
Species:
H. jacula
Binomial name
Heliodoxa jacula
Gould, 1850
Range of H. jacula

The green-crowned brilliant (Heliodoxa jacula) is species of hummingbird in the "brilliants", tribe Heliantheini in subfamily Lesbiinae. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama. It is also known as the green-fronted brilliant.

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